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twg_000012923100 | "setting His face toward Jerusalem," knowing all that awaited Him there. He went through Gethsemane to Calvary with the step of a conqueror. Never was He more truly a king than on the cross, and the grandest crown ever worn was "the crown of thorns." In Him we have the highest example of courage, as of all other virtue... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923101 | HEALTH. Health means soundness of body and of mind; the keeping of our physical system in such a condition that it is able to do its work easily, without disturbance, and without pain; the exercise of the mind so as not to harm the body. There are certain preliminary considerations that we should bear in mind in connec... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923102 | subject. I. The close connection between body and mind.--They are both related to each other in some mysterious way. So close is the connection that the one cannot be affected without the other. The well-being of the one depends on the well-being of the other. The power which the mind has over the body and the body ove... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923103 | has been well and tersely described by a writer of our time. "Man," he says, "is one, however compound. Fire his conscience, and he blushes; check his circulation, and he thinks tardily or not at all; impair his secretions, and the moral sense is dulled, discolored, or depraved, his aspirations flag, his hope and love ... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923104 | more, and he becomes a brute. A cup of wine degrades his moral nature below that of the swine. Again, a violent emotion of pity or horror makes him vomit; a lancet will restore him from delirium to clear thought; excessive thought will waste his energy; excess of muscular exercise will deaden thought; an emotion will d... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923105 | his muscles; and at last, a prick of a needle or a grain of mineral will in an instant lay to rest forever his body and its unity." [] When we consider the close connection between mind and body, and how the state of the one affects the other, we see how important it is that both should work together | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923106 | in that harmonious action which is health, and how carefully we should guard against anything by which that harmonious action may be interrupted. II. Bodily health is almost essential to success in life.--It is not _absolutely_ essential, but it is _almost_ essential. (_a_) Physical health is not everything. "Give a ma... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923107 | a stomach of which he never knew the existence, and he must succeed in any practical career." This has been said by a great authority, Professor Huxley, but it is only partially true, for many worthless people fulfil these conditions. They are, as Carlyle calls them, only "animated patent digesters." (_b_) Great things... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923108 | by men whose health has been feeble. Calvin was a man of sickly body; Pascal was an invalid at eighteen; Pope was weak and deformed; William of Orange, a martyr to asthma; Hall, the famous preacher, suffered great paroxysms of pain; Milton was blind; Nelson, little and lame; St. Paul in bodily presence was weak. On the... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923109 | of these men might have done more if their health had been better. Health is a splendid possession in the battle of life. The men of great physical vitality, as a rule, achieve most; other things being equal, their success in life is sure. Everything shows that the greatness of great men is almost as much a bodily affa... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923110 | a mental one. It has been computed that the average length of life of the most eminent philosophers, naturalists, artists, jurists, physicians, musical composers, scholars and authors, including poets, is sixty-five years. This shows that the most successful men on the whole have had good bodies and been blessed with g... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923111 | religious duty.--(_a_) It is so because our spiritual feelings are largely dependent upon the state of our health. "Certain conditions of body undeniably occasion, irritate and inflame those appetites and inclinations which it is one great end of Christianity to repress and regulate." The spirit has sometimes to mainta... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923112 | of bad feeding. "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle," than for a dyspeptic person to be gentle, meek, long-suffering. Dark views of God often come from the state of the body. It would largely lift up the moral and spiritual condition of men if their surroundings were such as tended to keep | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923113 | them in health. To improve men's dwellings, to give them healthy homes, pure air to breathe, and pure water to drink, would tend to help them morally and spiritually, (_b_) God requires of us a certain amount of service by and through our bodies. We cannot perform the work if we destroy the machines by which the work i... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923114 | be done. (_c_) Scripture especially calls us to make the body the object of our reverent care. "Your bodies are members of Christ." The body "is for the Lord, and the Lord for the body." "Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have of God." "If any man defile the temple of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923115 | God, him will God destroy." Yield "your members as instruments of righteousness unto God." Sin is not to "reign in your mortal body." "Glorify God in your body." We are to "present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable service." (_d_) The body is a part of that humanity which... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923116 | took, redeemed, sanctified and glorified. (_e_) Our Lord's miracles were nearly all performed on the human body, for its relief, cure, and restoration to life. IV. To a certain extent our health is in our own hands.--Not altogether, for some are constitutionally defective, and subject to infirmities with which they are... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923117 | vast amount of disease is preventable, and comes from causes over which we have direct control. "It is reckoned that a hundred thousand persons die annually in England of preventable diseases"--from disobedience to the laws of health, which are God's laws, and the transgression of which, wilfully, is sin. Beyond all do... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923118 | living, from intemperance in eating and drinking, from breathing bad air, from inhabiting ill-constructed houses. It is possible to live in accordance with the laws of health so that life may be comparatively free from disease and from pain. If Providence denies health, the want of it must be patiently endured. If we h... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923119 | most of the strength we have. But if we lack health through our own fault we are guilty of shameful sin. To discuss fully the subject and laws of health would require a whole treatise, and would be beyond the scope of this text-book. There are, however, some outstanding conditions for the preservation of health which a... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923120 | and which may be summed up in the three words Temperance, Exercise, and Rest. These have been well termed the three great physicians, whose prescriptions are painless and cost nothing. . _Temperance_.--Man needs a certain amount of food to sustain him, but if that amount be increased beyond the proper quantity it is da... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923121 | of digestion and is injurious. We need therefore to be constantly on our guard as to what we eat and drink lest we run into excess. Every one must study his own constitution, find out its need, and suit the supply of food to its wants. According to the old proverb, "We should eat to live, not live to eat." | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923122 | It is a great matter for health when we are able to strike the proper medium and neither eat nor drink too much nor too little. To lay down rules on this subject for the individual is impossible. "One man's food is another man's poison." A man must determine from his own experience what he ought to take, and how | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923123 | much, as well as what he ought to avoid. The word intemperance is generally employed as applying to the abuse of strong drinks. On this subject much has been written, some advocating total abstinence and others judicious and moderate use. Into this region of controversy we cannot enter. The evils of drinking habits, as... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923124 | all. They are a terrible curse to society, and a terrible danger to the individual. They have ruined many a promising career. For many, perhaps we may say for most, entire abstinence is their only safety. He who finds that he can do his work well by drinking only water will be wise if he drinks nothing else. That will | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923125 | never harm him, though other liquids may. We must judge for ourselves, but "Temperance in all things" is a rule binding on every Christian man. We cannot have health unless we strictly and constantly practise temperance. . _Exercise_.--This is as necessary to health as food. "Only by exercise--physical exercise--can we... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923126 | only by exercise can we equalise the circulation and distribute the blood evenly over every part of the body; only by exercise can we take a cheerful and wholesome view of life, for exercise assists the digestion, and a good digestion is a sovereign antidote to low spirits; only by exercise can the brain be strengthene... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923127 | demanded of it." [] No sensible man will try to do without it. If any man does so he will pay the penalty. As to the amount of exercise and the kind of exercise every man must judge for himself. Some, from their occupation, need less than others; the outdoor laborer, for instance, than the clerk who is most of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923128 | the day at the desk. One man may take exercise best by walking, another by riding, another by following outdoor sports. Athletics, such as football, and cricket, are a favorite form of exercise with the young, and if not followed to excess are most advantageous. The walk in the open air is life to many. But boy or man ... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923129 | never be what they ought to be unless they take exercise regularly and judiciously, take it not to exhaust but to refresh and stimulate. It strengthens the nerve and clears the brain and fits for work. . _Rest_.--Man needs a certain amount of repose to sustain his frame in full vigor. Some need more, some need less. We... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923130 | out for ourselves what we need and take it. Lack of sleep is especially a great waste of vitality. Here also we must exercise our judgment as to the amount of sleep we require. One needs a great deal; another can do with very little. Early rising, which has been much recommended, is only good for those who go early | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923131 | to bed. If one is compelled to sit up late he should sleep late in the morning. It is no virtue on the part of anyone to get up early unless he has slept enough. _That_ he must do if he is to have health. A man who would be a good worker must see to it that he is | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923132 | a good sleeper; and whoever, from any cause, is regularly diminishing his sleep is destroying his life. Shakespeare has well described the blessing of sleep when he says: Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great Nature's second course, C... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923133 | are but _hints_ in connection with a great subject. A few brief rules may be given of a general character: . Take exercise every day in the open air if possible, and make it a recreation and not merely a duty. . Eat wholesome food, drink pure water. . Let your house and room be well ventilated. . Take time | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923134 | enough for sleep. Do not worry. . Watch yourself, but not too closely, to find out what exercise, air, diet, etc., agrees with you. No man can be a rule for another. . If you consult a physician, it is better to do it before you are unwell than later.[] We close this chapter with the powerful words of Thomas | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923135 | Carlyle, addressed to the students of the University of Edinburgh: "Finally, I have one advice to give you which is practically of very great importance. You are to consider throughout much more than is done at present, and what would have been a very great thing for me if I had been able to consider, that health is a ... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923136 | to be attended to continually; that you are to regard it as the very highest of all temporal things. There is no kind of achievement you could make in the world that is equal to perfect health. What to it are nuggets or millions?" [] Frederic Harrison, _Popular Science Monthly Supplement_. [] _Plain Living and High Thi... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923137 | are given by J. Freeman Clarke in his work on Self-Culture. . EARNESTNESS. Another word for earnestness is enthusiasm. The Scriptural equivalent is zeal. It means putting our whole heart into whatever we are doing. It is a sweeping, resistless energy, which carries everything before it, like a river in full flood. Its ... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923138 | of the old huntsman, "Throw over your heart, and your horse will soon follow." Earnestness is not to be confounded with noise, vehemence, or outward demonstration.--It is often exceedingly quiet and undemonstrative. Notice when the machinery of an engine is standing still, how the steam makes a great noise as it issues... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923139 | turned into the cylinder and is used in driving the engine all that thundering sound disappears. It does not follow that there is no steam. It is going in another direction, and doing its appropriate work. It is a great mistake to imagine that enthusiasm and what is called _fuss_ are identical. The most enthusiastic me... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923140 | No one can doubt the enthusiasm of a man like Livingstone. He had enthusiasm for science, for philanthropy and for religion. It was unflagging; yet not a boast, not a murmur escaped his lips. He did the thing he meant to do, and made no noise in doing it. Earnestness is often regarded with suspicion and condemned.--It ... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923141 | with many to sneer at it. It is often alone, and then it is not respectable. It is often in excess, and is therefore ineffective. It is often disturbing to the sleepiness of others, and is therefore hated by them. Our Lord was an enthusiast in the eyes of the Pharisees. St. Paul was an enthusiast to Festus. The early | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923142 | Christians were enthusiasts to the pagan world because they turned it upside down. The martyrs and confessors of all times have been regarded as enthusiasts by those of their own time who were not in sympathy with them. An enthusiast is called by many a fanatic, and a fanatic in the eyes of some is a most dangerous mem... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923143 | society. All the great leaders of the world have been men in earnest.--Emerson says truly that "every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm." Our civil and religious liberties we owe to enthusiasts for freedom. The enthusiasm of Columbus gave us America; the enthusiasm of... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923144 | regenerated English religious life; the enthusiasm of men like Garibaldi and Cavour and Mazzini has made in our own time a new Italy. These men were all denounced in their day, cold water was thrown on all their projects, but their burning earnestness carried them on to triumph. The scorned enthusiast of one generation... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923145 | Earnestness is a great element in securing success in life.--A well-known writer and preacher, Dr. Arnot, tells that he once heard the following conversation at a railway station between a farmer and the engineer of a train: "What are you waiting for so long? Have you no water?" "Oh, yes, we have plenty of water, but i... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923146 | So there may be abundance of intelligence and splendid machinery, and all the appliances that help to success, but what is wanted is intense boiling earnestness. We have a good illustration of the power of earnestness in speaking. One man may say the right thing, and say it in a pleasing and cultured manner; every phra... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923147 | every sentence polished, every argument in its proper place. Another man may have no elegance of diction, his words may be unpolished, his sentences even ungrammatical, and yet he may move a great multitude, as the leaves of the trees are moved by the wind, through the intense earnestness and enthusiasm by which he is ... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923148 | thing in Christian effort. The organization of a church may be perfect, its resources may be large, and it may have in its service an army of able and well-disciplined men; but without enthusiasm and burning zeal its efforts are powerless and come to nothing. When, as at Pentecost, the Holy Spirit descends upon a churc... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923149 | then there is quickening, and souls are gathered in. No man has ever had a supreme influence over others without more or less enthusiasm in his nature. There are three directions we may give in regard to earnestness or enthusiasm. . _Respect it in others_.--Do not join with those who regard it as something that is not ... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923150 | always preferable to what is cold and formal. Life is better than death, and when there is life there is energy and earnestness. Even when enthusiasm takes forms that we cannot altogether approve of, it is worthy of respect. "Next to being Servetus who was burnt," said one, "I would have been Calvin who burnt him." Tha... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923151 | way of saying that zeal is a beautiful thing in itself, though "zeal that is not according to knowledge" is not good. We may not approve of many of the opinions and methods of Francis Xavier, the great missionary and saint of the Roman Church, but we cannot fail to admire his burning zeal in the cause of Christ, and | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923152 | look with something like awe on his high-souled devotion to the work of an evangelist. He was swept on by an enthusiasm that never failed, and which carried him over obstacles that would have daunted any ordinary man. The Puritans were denounced by many good people of their time, and the great preacher, Dr. South, deli... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923153 | entitled "Enthusiasts not led by the Spirit of God." But we all know how great the men were, and how great a work they did through the very enthusiasm that he condemned. "It is better," according to the proverb, "that the pot should boil over than not boil at all." The word enthusiasm literally means filled, or inspire... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923154 | and the meaning of the word may teach us how noble a thing enthusiasm is in itself, and how worthy it is of admiration and respect. . _We should cultivate it in ourselves_.--It is a virtue, like all others, that can be cultivated. (_a_) By resolutely setting our face against doing anything in a languid and half-hearted... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923155 | thing is worth doing, it should be done "with all our might." (_b_) By studying the lives of great men. When we do so we catch something of the earnestness that inspired them. This is perhaps the best result of reading biography. We feel how noble was the enthusiasm of the heroes of the past, and how, by means of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923156 | it, they were able to do great things, and to march on to victory. (_c_) By associating with those who are in earnest. There is nothing so contagious as enthusiasm, and when we come in contact with those who live under the impulse of grand ideas, something of their force and power is conveyed to ourselves. The great so... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923157 | the weak soul. While the solitary coal on the hearth will go black out, when it is heaped up with others it springs into a blaze. O ever earnest sun! Unwearied in thy work, Unhalting in thy course, Unlingering in thy path, Teach me thy earnest ways, That mine may be a life of steadfast work and praise. O ever | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923158 | earnest stars! Unchanging in your light, Unfaltering in your race, Unswerving in your round, Teach me your earnest ways, That mine may be a life of steadfast work and praise. O ever earnest flowers! That with untiring growth Shoot up and spread abroad Your fragrance and your joy, Teach me your earnest ways, That mine m... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923159 | steadfast work and praise. O ever earnest sea! Constant in flow and ebb, Heaving to moon and sun, Unchanging in thy change, Teach me thy earnest ways, That mine may be a life of steadfast work and praise. HORATIUS BONAR. . _We should carry earnestness into our religious life_.--This above all. There are many who tolera... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923160 | but who look upon it as dangerous in connection with religion. It is regarded as of very questionable value, and spoken of with doubt and suspicion. Let a man become earnest in prayer, earnest in work, or rise in any way above the dead level in which so many are content to rest, and he will be often spoken of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923161 | in tones of pity, sneered at as a fanatic, or denounced as an impostor. This suspicion with which earnestness in the Church of Christ is often regarded may be accounted for. (_a_) There has been a vast deal of zeal in the Church about religion which has not been zeal for religion: about matters of ritual, Church govern... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923162 | like. (_b_) Zeal has been often expended in contentions about small points of doctrine; often about those very points which are shrouded in mystery. (_c_) Zeal has been often manifested in the interest of sect and party rather than of Christ. (_d_) Zeal has often taken persecution for her ally, and wielded among men th... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923163 | these reasons its appearance in the Church is often regarded as we might regard the erection in a town of a gunpowder magazine which, at any moment, might produce disorder, ruin, and death. _Yet Scripture regards earnestness in religion as essential_.--Indifference and lukewarmness it regards as hateful (Rev. iii. , ).... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923164 | a lifelong service. Its heroes are those who lived in the spirit of Brainerd's prayer, "Oh, that I were a flaming fire in the service of my God." There is an allegory of Luther which may be quoted here. "The devil," he says, "held a great anniversary, at which his emissaries were convened to report the results of their... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923165 | missions. 'I let loose the wild beasts of the desert,' said one, 'on a caravan of Christians, and their bones are now bleaching on the sands.' 'What of that?' said the devil; 'their souls were all saved.' 'I drove the east wind,' said another, 'against a ship freighted with Christians, and they were all drowned.' 'What... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923166 | devil; 'their souls were all saved.' 'For ten years I tried to get a single Christian asleep,' said a third, 'and I succeeded, and left him so.' Then the devil shouted, and the night stars of hell sang for joy." There are three spheres of religious life in which earnestness should be specially shown. . _In prayer_.--Th... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923167 | in the two parables of our Lord, the "unjust judge" and "the friend at midnight," and in His own words, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." One, it is said, came to Demosthenes, the great orator, and asked him to plead his cause. He heard him | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923168 | without attention while he told his story without earnestness. The man saw this, and cried out anxiously that it was all true. "Ah!" said Demosthenes, "I believe you _now_." The earnest prayer is the prevailing prayer. . _In sacrifice_.--This is in all life the test of earnestness. The student giving up time for the ac... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923169 | up his hours to the pursuit of business; the explorer braving the heat of the tropics and the cold of the arctic regions in his zeal for discovery. It is the same in religion. We must count all things, with St. Paul, "as loss, that we may win Christ, and be found in Him." . _In impressing others_.--It is "out | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923170 | of the heart that the mouth speaketh," and power to impress others is given only to those who do so with a full heart, and who are consumed with a burning zeal for the salvation of souls. These are they whom God has, in all ages, blessed in the conversion of men. . MANNERS. The word manners comes from the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923171 | Latin _manus_, the hand, and literally means the mode in which a thing is handled--behavior, deportment. Manners may be defined as the pleasing or unpleasing expression of our thoughts and intentions, whether in word or action. We may say or do a thing in an agreeable or a disagreeable way. According as we choose the o... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923172 | manners may be said to be good or bad. Good manners are the result of two things.--(_a_) Self-respect and (_b_) consideration for the feelings of others. The man who respects himself will be careful to say or do nothing that may seem to others degrading or unworthy. The man who has consideration for the feelings of oth... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923173 | careful to do or say nothing that may give them pain, or be offensive to them. Good manners beautify character.--It was a celebrated saying of an old bishop, William of Wykeham, "Manners maketh man." This is, however, only partially true. Manners do not make a man any more than good clothes make a man, but if he _is ma... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923174 | greatly improve him. Some have been truly excellent who have had an uncouth and unpolished address, but that was rather to their disadvantage than otherwise. "Rough diamonds" are always precious, but a diamond that is cut and polished, while it retains its value, is much more beautiful. Civility of speech, politeness o... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923175 | qualities that adorn a man, whilst rudeness, incivility, roughness in behavior, detract greatly from his value, and injure his usefulness. Tennyson's words are true: Manners are not idle, but the fruit Of noble nature and of loyal mind. Good manners tend greatly to success in life.--Coarseness and gruffness lock doors,... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923176 | is shunned by all. Take the case of a speaker addressing a public meeting. What he says is weighty and important. His arguments are powerful and well marshalled, but his speech is uncouth and disagreeable. He says things that are coarse and vulgar. His bad manner vastly takes away from the impression which he desires t... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923177 | his manner had been different, he would have made. Again, two young men serve in a place of business. The one is gentle in his demeanor, meets his customers with a pleasant smile, is always polite. The other is rough in his deportment, apparently does not care whether those he deals with are pleased or not. The one is ... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923178 | favorite with everybody; the other, who may be equally worthy as far as character is concerned, is disliked. Good manners often disarm opposition.--People may have a prejudice against ourselves personally, or against the cause we represent. It is wonderful, however, how much may be done to soften them by habitual court... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923179 | offend them or rouse their anger. A wise man will always endeavor to be specially civil towards any one who differs from him. It is related that in the early days of the Abolition movement in the United States, two men went out preaching: one, a sage old Quaker, brave and calm; the other, a fervid young man. When the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923180 | Quaker lectured, the audience were all attention, and his arguments met with very general concurrence. But when it came to the young man's turn, a tumult invariably ensued, and he was pelted off the platform. Surprised by their different receptions, the young man asked the Quaker the reason. "Friend," he said, "you and... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923181 | preach the same things; how is it that while _you_ are received so cordially, I get nothing but abuse?" "I will tell thee," replied the Quaker; "thee says, 'If you do so and so, you shall be punished,' and I say, 'My friends, if you will _but_ do so and so, you shall not be punished.' It is not what | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923182 | we say, but how we say it." [] In _The Memorials of a Quiet Life_ it is said of Augustus Hare that, on a road along which he frequently passed, there was a workman employed in its repair who met his gentle questions and observations with gruff answers and sour looks. But as day after day the persevering mildness of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923183 | his words and manner still continued, the rugged features of the man gave way, and his tone assumed a softer character. Politeness is the oiled key that will open many a rusty lock. Good manners may be summed up in the one word, Gentleman.--That term implies all that good-manners ought to be. The original derivation of... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923184 | the Latin _gentilis_, belonging to a tribe or _gens_; and in its first signification it applies to those of noble descent or family; but it has come to mean something far wider, and something which every man, however humble, may be--a man of high courtesy and refinement, to whom dishonor is hateful. "What is it," says ... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923185 | gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and, possessing all these qualities, to exercise them in the most graceful outward manner." It was said of our Lord by one of the early English poets, that he was The first true gentleman that ever breathed. To be a gentleman in | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923186 | all circumstances is the highest idea we can form of good manners. It is what, in our intercourse with others, we should strive to be--to have "high thoughts," as Sir Philip Sidney expresses it, "seated in a heart of courtesy." In Bishop Patteson's life is given the estimate of him, as a true gentleman, by a New Zealan... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923187 | thought nothing that ought to be done too mean for him. Pig-gentleman never worked." The savage knew by instinct that the good Bishop who came to live among them that he might teach them to be better, who treated them with invariable courtesy and consideration, was a true gentleman, though he had to clean his own hut, ... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923188 | own food, and to mend his own kettles. And he knew also that the man who made others work for him without doing them any good in return, who swore at them and abused them, was only a pig-gentleman, however rich or high in station he might be. A few advices on the subject of this ay be given. . | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923189 | _Cultivate a pleasing manner_.--Any one can be civil and polite if he sets himself to be so. Some suppose that it is unworthy of a robust character to be gentle in demeanor, that it indicates a certain amount of effeminacy, and that strength and gruffness go together. We hear men spoken of sometimes approvingly as "rou... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923190 | us that the noblest and strongest have been the most tender and courteous. King Robert the Bruce was "brave as a lion, tender-hearted as a woman." "Sir Walter Raleigh was every inch a man, a brave soldier, a brilliant courtier, and yet a mirror of courtesy. Nobody would accuse Sir Philip Sidney of having been deficient... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923191 | fine manners were proverbial. It is the courtesy of Bayard, the knight, _sans peur et sans reproche_, which has immortalized him quite as much as his valor." [] It is not beneath us to study good manners. To a great extent they come naturally from refinement of disposition and inborn delicacy of feeling. But they may a... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923192 | extent, be learned and acquired. "Watch," it has wisely been said, "those of excellent reputation in manners. Catch the temper of the great masters of literature--the nobility of Scott, the sincerity of Thackeray, the heartiness of Dickens, the tenderness of Macdonald, the delicacy of Tennyson, the grace of Longfellow,... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923193 | young man beginning life to form a true idea of what good manners are, and to make it his constant effort to acquire them. . _Avoid eccentricity_.--Eccentricity is the deliberate endeavor to make ourselves different from those around us. (_a_) Some show it in their dress by wearing garments often of outrageous shape an... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923194 | their speech by striving to say things that they think especially smart. (_c_) Some show it in their actions by striking forced attitudes, and putting themselves in grotesque positions. It all springs from love of notoriety and desire to be thought different from their neighbors. It is the mark, as a rule, of fops and ... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923195 | weakness of character. It is fundamentally inconsistent with good manners. Johnson was called _ursa major_, or big bear, from the gruffness of his manner. This was probably natural to him, but many affect a similar manner from a desire to be eccentric. The "big bears" of society are odious. Johnson's own words are appl... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923196 | more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one--no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down." Those also who are ever trying to say things which they think smart, but which are often impudent, and meant to give annoyance, ought to receive no countenance. "Sir," said one such person in his | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923197 | Irish brogue to Dean Swift, "I _sit_ (set) up for being a wit." "Then, sir," said the Dean, "I advise you to sit down." Similar people should be treated in the same way. . _Try to conquer shyness_.--This is constitutional with some, but even when this is the case it can be overcome by taking pains. The shy man is | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923198 | often awkward in manner; and, what is worse, he often gives the impression to others of being rude, when he has no intention to be so. There are those who, in their own family and among their own friends, are known to be warm-hearted, kind and gentle, but who, from this defect of which we speak, have a reputation far | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923199 | from enviable. Any young man who is afflicted with it should set himself resolutely to get the better of it. . _We should be especially courteous to those below us in station_.--To servants in our house, to those in our employ, to the poor, we should be marked in our civility. "It is the very essence of gentlemanhood t... | 60 | gutenberg |
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